Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt